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Chapter 113

Author: Celice Wylder
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Rafael

We became aware of the car following us when we were roughly ten miles from the safe house where I sent Ethel and Betsy.

The black sedan was not made for the road we were traveling on, and we would not have noticed it if it didn’t lose its way in the dark and nearly skidded off the embankment. I heard the roar of an engine, and the loud crunch of gravel as the driver slammed on the brakes.

Frankie and I looked over our shoulders at the same time, catching a glimpse of the glimmering windshield in the dark. It was the right moment at the right time. “What do we do?” Frankie asked. “Keep going?”

I tried to count the silhouettes in the car, but it was impossible. As soon as it was back on the road, the darkness swallowed it again. “No,” I responded. “We’ll lead them straight to the girls.”

“We can keep going,” Tito offered. “Go to the city. Drop you and the missus at the hotel.”

We could do that. Shake the tail. But they wouldn’t stop coming. It would be a never ending game of ca
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  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 113

    RafaelWe became aware of the car following us when we were roughly ten miles from the safe house where I sent Ethel and Betsy. The black sedan was not made for the road we were traveling on, and we would not have noticed it if it didn’t lose its way in the dark and nearly skidded off the embankment. I heard the roar of an engine, and the loud crunch of gravel as the driver slammed on the brakes.Frankie and I looked over our shoulders at the same time, catching a glimpse of the glimmering windshield in the dark. It was the right moment at the right time. “What do we do?” Frankie asked. “Keep going?”I tried to count the silhouettes in the car, but it was impossible. As soon as it was back on the road, the darkness swallowed it again. “No,” I responded. “We’ll lead them straight to the girls.”“We can keep going,” Tito offered. “Go to the city. Drop you and the missus at the hotel.”We could do that. Shake the tail. But they wouldn’t stop coming. It would be a never ending game of ca

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 112

    MadeleineThe soft interior, *ding-ding-ding* indicating that a door has been left open penetrates through the fog of my mind.All the lights are off, even the interior ones, and it’s so dark dark that I can feel it breathing around me like a living monster. The driver side door is open, but the car is empty.He left me.Rafael left me.But then a much more terrifying thought takes hold.He didn’t leave me.They took him. Sforza and Rossi. Somehow, while I was asleep, they attacked the car, and took Rafael.My mind goes into a freefall. There are no bodies. No indication of a struggle. No blood or bullet holes that I can see.It’s almost as if they just upped and disappeared into thin air.I started to slide across the seat to the open door on my left. My foot bumps against heavy, I lean down and pick it up.It’s the pistol Rafael gave me when we left. It rests cold and heavy in my hand. I also still have the Walther strapped between my breasts and the knife in my thigh holster.If no

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 111

    MadeleineFrankie sits on the edge of the love seat, while I’m on the bed, running the rosary beads through my fingers. I try to remember the prayers I said so religiously only a few months ago, but now I can’t think of a single one.We haven’t said a word to each other since we came upstairs. I know, somewhere in this house in the basement, a man is being tortured, and that Rafael is the one who is doing it.Last night, he told me to remember that he is Dom. That's the man I met in the church. That’s the real him. But it doesn’t feel like him.And I don’t care. I think Rafael wants to be Dom more than I need him to be. He’s both and neither at the same time, and I”m okay with that.I’m just not so sure he is.I glance at my closet and my blood runs cold. Marco’s head was in there. They killed him. They did it because they wanted to get to me.The cold creeps through my veins, settling in my heart, and I finally understand that side of Rafael. I get it. Why he’d torture and kill some

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 110

    MadeleineThe grounds are quiet. The marquees is dark. The only light I see comes from the guard towers and the thin stripe of orange on the horizon.I feel completely and utterly alone. I’m not. Rafael and his men are here, hidden in the garden - behind trees, in trees, and in the shadows. They left right before dawn, when the night was darkest.I walk up to the lake, dressed in a long white nightgown that flows around my legs. It was Rafael’s idea to dress me like a virgin - he said it gave off the appearance that I was less dangerous.Tucked under the gown, between my breasts in a special holster is a Walther PPK pistol, and in a garter around my thigh, there’s a sharp knife sheathed in leather, and a tracker of some kind is hidden in the cross around my neck.I’m strapped up and ready like a soldier on her way to war.I throw my head back and inhale the clean, early morning air. The wind whips the dress around my legs, reaches under the skirt and licks its way up my legs, remindin

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 109

    Rafael“Are you hurt?” Madeleine asks and steps into the kitchen.I shake my head. “It’s not my blood.”It’s a fucking miracle that Salvatore missed. He had a clear shot and I was mere feet away from him.“What happened, Rafael?”“Fuck,” I sigh and walk over to the sink to wash my hands. “I didn’t want it to spoil our day.”She glances at the watch. Even from here, I can tell that it’s the new one I gave her. The strap is shiny and unscratched. “It’s past midnight. It’s not our wedding day anymore.”There’s a hole in the window, with spider cracks rippling outwards. That bullet was meant to be in my head.I am not scared. I’m not sad that there’s a dead man in my kitchen. I’m fucking furious.I turn back around just in time to see Madeleine leave. I hurry after her. We don’t know where Enzo is, and Marco isn’t down here with her. I catch up with her in the hallway and grab her by the wrist, pulling her to me. “Where are you going?”“To check on Betsy.”“She’s not here.”Slowly, Madel

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 108

    RafaelWe were supposed to go to the hotel tonight, but I didn’t tell Madeleine about Rossi yet, and the lights on the island kept bugging me. Security came back and told Frankie that they found no one, but that doesn’t mean much. There are places a person can hide, and if they sent someone to grab my wife and child, it wouldn’t be a whole gang. I didn’t want to leave Betsy and Ethel here on their own tonight. Alone and vulnerable. Frankie, Vito, Vinnie, Sallie, and Marco are still here, waiting for my orders.I cover my sleeping bride, and slide out of bed, then tiptoe across the floor to get a pair of decent pyjama bottoms and a t-shirt, while I text Frankie - *Get the guys and come up to the house.*I quickly get dressed and sneak out of the room like a thief, relaxing a little once I’m outside. Marco is already coming up the stairs, giving me a questioning look, as if asking, ‘do you want me to watch her?’I nod at him, and he wordlessly takes up position outside my bedroom door.

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